Description: A literary history of the Haitian Revolution that explores how scientific ideas about 'race' affected 19th-century understandings of the Haitian Revolution and, conversely, how understandings of the Haitian Revolution affected 19th-century scientific ideas about race.
Review Quotes:
'Tropics of Haiti shines a bright light on the way nineteenth-century thinking about "race" as biology-cum-ontology has crept into present-day understandings of "race." Daut illuminates how "race" as metaphor and "race" as pseudoscientific category function in tandem to determine the writing of Haitian revolutionary history.'
Kaiama L. Glover, New West Indian Guide